Brussels, 10/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, the European Parliament adopted the report by Nikolaos Vakalis (EPP-ED, Greece) on first reading, thereby approving the draft regulation implementing the new Energy Star agreement concluded between the EU and the United States in December 2006 (see EUROPE 9333). This agreement deals with coordination of programmes for labelling the energy efficiency of office equipment. While allowing the voluntary EU-US programme, launched in 2001, to...